Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
AMPHIOXUS
lancelet, amphioxus
(noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
amphioxus (plural amphioxi or amphioxuses)
The lancelet, particularly of the genus Branchiostoma.
Source: Wiktionary
Am`phi*ox"us, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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